Privacy policy for the Internet presentation of Konrad Hornschuch AG

Data privacy statement

Konrad Hornschuch AG processes your data in the context of your use of this website in compliance with the applicable legal regulations. Konrad Hornschuch AG is part of the Continental AG. In the following declaration will find some links to Continental.

1. General Personal data entered by you is collected, processed and used by Konrad Hornschuch AG for the purpose of request execution. Insofar as this is necessary for the execution of the contract, the data may be passed on to the companies affiliated with Konrad Hornschuch AG pursuant to sections 15 et seqq. of the German Stock Corporation Act as stipulated in the Binding Corporate Rules of Continental. If permitted and/or prescribed by law, the data may be evaluated for reporting purposes (e.g., statistics). Your data will be collected, processed and used solely in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations (e.g., your consent).

In accordance with the statutory provisions, all your data is treated as strictly confidential.

2. Collection and processing of data

Konrad Hornschuch AG only stores personal data relating to users of its websites if consent for this has been provided. The only data that is stored relates to the date and time of the visit, the pages visited, cursor use on the website, the page functions used, and the website from which the user accessed Continental’s websites. The IP address is transmitted anonymously and is only used to assign a geographical location at the city level. Konrad Hornschuch AG uses this information to measure website activity, to produce statistics, and to improve the services and information provided via the websites.

Personal user data is solely used to process inquiries within the context of the consent granted or in compliance with applicable data protection regulations. Based on legal requirements, Continental has enforced global, uniform and internal Data Protection Rules (Binding Corporate Rules) regulating the protection of your personal data.

Konrad Hornschuch AG stores data entered into websites/tools/services and/or data provided for the process such as name, company, e-mail, address and telephone only for the purpose of communicating personally with you. The data is stored and/or used solely for the purpose of processing your inquiry. Your data is erased once processing of your inquiry has concluded, provided that this erasure does not conflict with any statutory duties to retain records.

3. The data subject’s rights

Please note that, as a data subject, pursuant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), you have the following rights in connection with the processing of your personal data:

In accordance with Article 21 EU GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent to the collection, processing/storage and use of your personal data at any time. Consent must be withdrawn by writing to Konrad Hornschuch AG, Salinenstr. 1, D-74679 Weissbach, or by sending an e mail to datenschutzbeuftragter@hornschuch.de.

You can always contact our data protection officers in writing (including by e-mail) with questions or complaints. E-mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@hornschuch.de. You can also contact the appropriate data protection authorities, if available.

4. Protection of stored data

Our company and our provider Beyond Media GmbH, Mercedesstr. 3, 74366 Kirchheim use technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data provided by you from manipulation, loss, destruction or from being accessed by unauthorized persons. The security measures are continually improved and adapted in accordance with the latest technology. Data provided that is unencrypted could potentially be viewed by third parties. For this reason, we would like to point out that, with regard to data transmission over the Internet (e.g., by e-mail), secure transfer cannot be guaranteed. Sensitive data should therefore either not be transmitted at all or only via a secure connection (SSL). If you access pages and files and are then asked to enter personal data, please note that the transmission of such data via the Internet may not be secure and that there is a risk that it may be viewed and manipulated by unauthorized persons.

6. GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis tool from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files that are stored on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of these websites will be transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the USA. In case of activation of the IP address anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. This website uses active IP anonymization. On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for the website provider and providing other services associated with website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Cookies on our site are used only on the basis of your consent. Furthermore, you can permanently prevent cookies from being stored by making the appropriate changes in your browser settings. We wish to point out, however, that if you do so, you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

7. USE OF IFRAMING:

We embed videos via iFraming on our website. External content from third-party websites can be embedded and displayed in defined areas on our website via iFraming

Videos from the following third-party website are embedded on our website:

YouTube: This website from which videos are embedded via iFraming is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. By clicking on the videos it will be marked by the YouTube logo. You can find YouTube’s Data Protection Notice [here].

If you visit one of our websites with embedded videos, the Internet Explorer will not automatically establish a link to the server on the appropriate network. By clicking on the embedded Video you give your consent to communication with the aforementioned website and the placing of cookies by this website. By clicking on the embedded video the information that you visited our website will be automatically be forwarded to the aforementioned website operator and cookies will be placed by the aforementioned website.

If you are logged into the aforementioned website visiting our website, the data transmitted will be associated with your user account. If you wish to prevent a network from linking information with your user account in this manner, please log out from the respective network before clicking on the respective video.

Even if you are not registered as a member of the aforementioned website, or you are currently not logged in your data may be stored by the operator of the aforementioned website after you click on the respective video. We have no influence on the placement of third-party cookies and over the scope and content of the data collected by the aforementioned website or on how that data is used. For more information, please read the privacy policies of the aforementioned website.

8. LINKS

Our offer contains links to external websites belonging to third parties, over which we have no influence concerning content. Therefore, we also cannot accept any liability for this other content. The page’s respective provider or operator is always responsible for the contents of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time the links were created. Unlawful content was not detected at the time the links were created. However, ongoing inspection of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indication of a legal violation. We will immediately remove the relevant links if they are found to violate any law.